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I’M SURPRISED THIS OLD QUOTE ISN’T THROWN AROUND MORE RIGHT NOW

Mascot new lookWith assorted events in the news these days I keep being reminded of an old quote. You know the source.

I’ll paraphrase it as “Too late we realized that we would have to go on living under the new Plague Rules long after the Plague itself had gone away.”

In 1947 Albert Camus used a physical plague as a metaphor for his actual theme: The manner in which too many people react – or fail to react – when they are physically trapped by human “rats” who insist they obey orders and remain utterly compliant as their freedoms are taken away from them. Continue reading

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THE MALEVOLENT SEAMSTRESS

Balladeer’s Blog presents another neglected American horror legend for Halloween Month.

THE MALEVOLENT SEAMSTRESS  

PlagueIn Boston in 1775, shortly after the Revolutionary War had broken out a mysterious old seamstress wandered into the rebel-held countryside. This woman always wore a mantel wrapped about her in such a way that most of her face was always obscured.

The gentle and apparently very aged woman would beg a night’s lodging in the homes she visited, offering to do any sewing work that needed done by way of paying her way. Many families were happy to take her up on that bartering offer.  Continue reading

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